Iran has reportedly taken custody of two small United States Navy boats and the ten sailors accompanying them in an Iranian controlled portion of the Persian Gulf (archived). Representatives of Iran and the United States are reportedly negotiating a resolution to this situation.
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Europol Claims DD4BC Action
Europol is claiming one arrest and several other detentions in relation to the long running DD4BC group (archived). DD4BC began their career by utilizing denial of service extortion attacks against various Bitcoin properties before moving on to extort various fiat interests in the last year.
Gavin and Toomim Present: "Classic" – Another Hard Fork Risk
Another One Bites The Dust: Cryptsy Edition
The altcoin exchange known as Cryptsy finally went full Gox after more than a year of warnings. Reports then came in that the company moved out of their office without any notice to users. Yesterday divorce proceedings involving the exchange's proprietor, Paul Edward Vernon, were posted to Bitcointalk leading to speculation that the civil court has frozen all of the proprietor's assets including Cryptsy's cold wallet until divorce proceedings have finalized. Cryptsy has acted irresponsible in regards to its users, and has yet to make a public statement of any kind regarding its situation.
RBS Supports Qntra's Dire Predictions For Fiat In 2016
The Royal Bank of Scotland is reportedly advising client to sell everything because shit is going down (archived). This supports predictions made by Qntra that 2016 more than 2015 is going to be, and has so far been a very bad year for fiat interests. We are only 12 days into 2016. Sorry for your loss.
Intel Skylake Brings Optimized #ROWHAMMER Exploit
In spite of marketing that Intel's latest Skylake family of chips would be more resistant to the Rowhammer exploit through use of DDR4 memory, it has come out that not only does Rowhammer survive (archived), exploiting it is more optimizable than ever (archived) thanks to the new clflushopt instruction. Remember to watch your bits and be selective in the code and hardware you choose to run.
Earliest Possible Date For XTCoin Fork Passes
Today was the first possible date for XTCoin to fork away from the Bitcoin blockchain. It lacked the backing to do so in spite substantial social engineering attempts at great cost to various USG organs.
Zero-Conf Shenanigans Lead To Peter Todd Reddit Ban
For demonstrating the absolute insecurity offered by unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions, Peter Todd was suspended from Reddit. Peter Todd, without using any script hash shenanigans mundanely sent a transaction with a low fee which was followed by a transaction with a higher fee using the same inputs. Miners opted to mine the transaction with higher fees as they often tend to. While many try to use unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions as a part of various pseudo business practices, actual uses demanding Bitcoin also demand the commitment of complete transactions to the blockchain.
Reference Client Patch Bans Bloom Filter Parasites
Today asciilifeform of No Such lAbs offered for review a patch to the reference Bitcoin Client that spares full node operators the burden of having to handle connections from parasitic SPV clients making Bloom filter requests. This complements other recent work on the reference Bitcoin client to promote communion among Bitcoin full nodes absent distractions presented by various things that are not other full nodes. When a node running this patch receives a bloom filter request the debug.log entry looks like: Continue reading
USG Makes Tired Sheriff Face Of Oregon Operations
So Tired
As the Oregon liberation continues to hold, the United States Government has made one very tired local Sheriff the face of its efforts to recapture the liberated outpost. Harney County Sheriff David Ward, who normally presides over a force of locally forced six is now the public face of the combined government effort lead by Federal Force IV.1
As the face of Federal reclamation efforts Ward has had to balance the competing demands of meeting with Oregon liberators as a representative of the United States Government, vacillating between promises of free passage and criminal charges, and keeping local residents in a state of panic by closing local schools and businesses. Meanwhile mainstream leftist publications are criticising him for utilizing polite manners when meeting with the leadership of a formidable armed force instead of suicidally attempting to arrest or shoot the entire liberating militia force himself. All of this attention and these new responsibilities appear to be taking a substantial toll on Ward's sleep hygiene.
Completely absent from reporting in mainstream outlets loyal to the United States government is any mention of relevant Hussein Bahamas administration officials with responsibility for the type of Federal outpost liberated in Oregon. It is like no one in the Federal government sees an opportunity to derive glory from this. It appears no one in today's Federal government wants the "glory" Janet Reno won at Waco or that Richard Rogers won at Ruby Ridge. Hussein's 2008 campaign slogan "Yes we can" has in this last year of his administration turned around completely into a quiet "Fuck it, why even try?" At this rate there will be little left for whoever gets stuck as the next United States president.
Mark to be pronounced "Carl" not "four" ↩